I love having a front row seat to the fourth turning.
Things always get worse before they get better.
We haven’t officially met, but I’m Auxmos 🤝
Long time follower of Jesus here with my 2 sats:
I think the Church’s inability to identify with what you’re describing here is its greatest issue currently. I’ve come to identify the issue as a sacred // real divide. (Or a sacred // physical 🌍 divide). Let me explain:
When I hear you say “…the truth that god is within all of us and makes up all of creation” I hear Ephesians 4:6 “…one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”
When I hear you say “…we are all parts of the whole…” I hear 1 Corinthians 12:12 “Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.”
With that said, properly orienting yourself in the midst of this God swirl 🌀 is entirely contingent upon your proper orientation with the “head” of the body, namely Jesus.
I believe the churches inability to identify with what you’re feeling in your physical body and in the physical world around you is due to the Church’s emphasis of explicitly spiritual (ethereal) matters unto the neglect of the physical (worldly) matters.
I actually believe this is the chief issue the Church needs to overcome in order to understand the significance of #Bitcoin. I’ve actually written a paper recently tailored for the local Church unpacking this idea to help them understand #Bitcoin.
To take an excerpt from that paper:
“Our physical bodies are now the temple of the Holy Spirit, and in Him the whole world holds together. It’s not obvious that our bodies are simply earthen vessels just as it’s not obvious that the world is just an object. He is in all and through all, and that’s exactly the point. The Lord is concerned with the “physical” order of things, especially as it pertains to the freedom of His people.”
Said differently, the Church has good theology for why Jesus had to come as a man, but we do not have good theology for why he is still a man.
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Very nice to meet you Auxmos. Very well put!
Like nostr:npub1jfn4ghffz7uq7urllk6y4rle0yvz26800w4qfmn4dv0sr48rdz9qyzt047 said, I’m very glad to hear you are working on brining a better understanding of #bitcoin to the church.
Many of my loved ones are Christians and I have such a hard time explaining how I feel about the church. I think that having a group of like minded people coming together being grateful, singing, and praying together is very powerful and important.
The Bible is without doubt one of if not the most powerful and significant works of literature ever written.
But in my mind it is still undoubtedly work of man (although all of our actions are the work of “God”) and there is so much wisdom to be drawn from it.
I feel that the key is drawing your own conclusions, although we must learn from everyone around us.
Will definitely be digging in to that paper! I’m glad there are people like you who are better with words than I am🫡❤️
Will definitely check them out and I appreciate you giving your perspective.
I guess my only push back would be the idea that the Bible could be misinterpreted at all. In my mind it is a work of literature and however one interprets it is god speaking through it 🤷♂️
Absolutely, the deeper I go the more I am completely in awe of everything around me and how magnificently it all functions.
And I agree just being grateful for this experience and feeling part of something bigger has helped me and I try to overcome my many addictions.
“Hand ‘em a little Bitcoin, and wipe out our $35T [in debt].”
— Donald J Trump, 8.2.2024 https://video.nostr.build/0be6bf1c4df40a89f44061657ecd1bf9779d7a735f17a14f54ce58a56f376056.mp4
“Intellectually, very high level”
I do read the Bible and I do believe in it.
I definitely do not have a fixed perspective on it, just some ideas I’ve been building on. (much of which I’ve taken from my studying of the Bible)
Are those specific translations that you are recommending?
Yes, still trying to get better at articulating this perspective.
I am glad to be on this journey with you🫡
I used to think that Jesus was just a successful cult leader.
I still feel that he was a man like anyone else. However, he was a man who realized the truth that god is within all of us and makes up all of creation.
I identify closely with Spinoza’s idea of god as the force that moves all things. We are all parts of the whole, temporarily perceiving our self through a limited perspective.
It is hard to draw any real distinction between ourselves and the world around us.
Everyone I try to talk to about this looks at me like I’m crazy.
Any thoughts?
You need to be a hero in your own mind.
Take the leap of faith, pick yourself up after defeat, slay the dragon, save the princess.
Otherwise what is the point?
I would take a 21sat zap over 1000 likes on a centralized platform any day.
Bitcoiners are going to be some of the most powerful people on the planet.
And we are going to connect via Nostr.
Reminder that an involuntary transaction is also called theft.
The suits are going to be playing with their bitcoins today.
He has a Cassius coin now they gifted him one.
He will probably lose it 😂
Donald Trump rly just quoted Michael Saylor…🤯
Everything the government has is stolen.